"I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.”
“Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.”
“Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.”
“I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to tell their story about the revolution through the eyes of musicians, in fact. The '59 Revolution. And what has happened to them since. It's very much a Cuban story. They haven't fared too well.”
“I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.”

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